Third party accessories and code - from simple JavaScript that installs in the blog template, to attractive XML gadgets installed using the "Add a Gadget" wizard - has always been a challenge, to Blogger blogs.

Knowing when you are installing code provided by someone other than Blogger / Google, and taking appropriate precautions, is your responsibility. What you install can affect your reader activity - and even your reader's computers.
Blogger provides a large library of XML coded accessories, installed using the Layout "Add a Gadget" wizard.

Sadly, the Blogger "Add a Gadget" library is subject to abuse by hackers.
As we have learned in the past, however, the "Add a Gadget" accessory library is also used for distribution of non Blogger supplied gadgets. Gadgets supplied by Blogger are available using "Add a Gadget", and are labeled "By Blogger".

Google does have other accessory libraries - the late "iGoogle" library is one well known one. That aside, most Blogger blogs - and all non Google websites, which are used for distribution of Blogger accessories and gadgets - are non Blogger products.

Consider, carefully, any third party code.
Be aware of what you are about to install, on your blog.

A gadget provided using "Add a Gadget", and labeled "By Blogger" is a Blogger provided gadget.

A gadget provided using "Add a Gadget", but not labeled "By Blogger", is not a Blogger provided gadget.

A gadget provided using a Blogger blog, which is not published by Blogger, is not a Blogger provided gadget.

A gadget provided using a non Google website is not a Blogger provided gadget.

These are examples of Blogger supplied gadgets. Anything different is not a Blogger supplied gadget.

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